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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Buenos Ayres is large, & I should think one of the most regular in the world. Every street is at right angles to the one it crosses
— Charles Darwin (@cdarwin) November 3, 2013

The almost-perfectly regular grid pattern, give or take a few forks and mergers, is still there. The streets and the pavements are wide. One consequence is that a corner is a more planned and deliberate thing than it is at home, and there is a particular style of unofficial embellishment which appears on many of them:

Corner embellishments

Similar symbols appeared above the corner shop near the house I stayed in, and above many other corner businesses. I don't know what they mean. The photo above also happens to include the only Ginger person I saw during my stay.

The country is very level from in places from Willows & Poplars being planted by the ditches much resembled Cambridgeshire.
— Charles Darwin (@cdarwin) November 5, 2013

My first impression, in the taxi from the airport, was that the city had been dropped in an enormous park.

Even the roads are burrowed by the Viscache,an animal allied to the Cavies. Its holes cause the death of many of the Gauchos
— Charles Darwin (@cdarwin) November 5, 2013

This doesn't seem to happen any more.

Every burrow is tenanted by a small owl, who, as you ride past, most gravely stares at you.
— Charles Darwin (@cdarwin) November 5, 2013

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